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A huge upshot to using a laptop is you have a built-in UPS and KVM.

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[–] Anivia@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not 15 year old laptops. Like that's 32nm Sandy bridge or even older

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

i use many sandy bridge laptops (mostly xx20 thinkpads) and they seem pretty ok to me. newer machine is probably much more efficient but these machines are not that power hungry compared to desktops.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't take much to implement a solar panel to run it tho.